NOTE DATE CHANGE - was January 11 (changed to January 18)

Tiger Brides: Memories of Love and War from the GI Brides of Tiger Bay is a Welsh Voices* presentation.

*Welsh Voices is a series of monthly free virtual seminars on Zoom, presented by experts on Welsh and Welsh North American culture and history. It is a project of The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore, Nebraska. For more details and links, visit greatplainswelsh.org/events

Tiger Brides: Memories of Love and War from the GI Brides of Tiger Bay is a documentary film presented by Dr. Valerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A & M University.

It tells the story of women from Cardiff who married African-American soldiers during and after the Second World War. It is estimated that around 70 women from the multicultural Tiger Bay area married black GIs, despite the US military's segregationist policies that prohibited mixing with the local population. Dr. Hill-Jackson, whose own mother-in-law set sail from Tiger Bay for Texas in the late 1940s and later joined the American Civil Rights movement, spent a year in Wales conducting interviews and researching the powerful, poignant and sometimes heartbreaking  experiences of the women of Tiger Bay.

​Dr. Hill-Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Human Resource Development at Texas A & M University. A highly recognized educator and publicly engaged scholar, in 2013 Hill-Jackson won a Traditional Core Fulbright Award and was hosted by the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at the School of English Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales. 

Obtain the Zoom Link Here - from The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore, Nebraska.